Phoenicia was an element such as a hinge connecting the East and West, supplying goods in the Near East and spreading westwards oriental products. Through this network, the Phoenicians were placed as carriers of ideas and men around the Mediterranean, becoming the architects of a peaceful and continuous dialogue, balance and coexistence among different and distant cultures.
The Phoenician expansion in Mediterranean basin and the activation of the caravan route, connecting the Arabian peninsula, mark a change from the Late Bronze Age trade routes after the invasions of the Sea Peoples. But the role of the Phoenician cities in those long-distance trade is also an element of continuity between the second and first millennium BC, during the great empires of the Near East.
Mare Nostrum in Phoenician Sicily, 19, 20 and 21 April 2012.
The next 7th transnational meeting will take place in the Phoenician sites and port-cities of western Sicily, Mothia, Marsala, Selinunte, Castelvetrano.
Our stop in Sicily includes working meetings, poster exhibition, stakeholders round tables, visits in the archaeological areas the city-ports and their activities and the 3rd MELKART Workshop “Port-cities and their Markets, between past and present”.
Paralleli - Euromediterranean Institute managed a pilot experience of participatory planning in Tyre (Lebanon). This experience aimed to promote of the heritage value of historic port-cities along the Phoenician routes and to suggest guidelines for new tourist itineraries in the cities of reference.
25 November 2011, Florence, Italy -Melkart Workshop. Intangible Heritage.
Mare Nostrum will focus the Melkart workshop on the theme of intangible heritage, mapping and empowering a priceless Mediterranean legacy for sustainable tourism development.
I want to understand and live it more
Childers of Mare Nostrum Port-Cities discovering and learning their cities through visits, exercises and workshops.
Mare Nostrum partnership is launching Workshops for school children in the Port-Cities partner:
Carthage, Marsaxlokk, Rhodes, Tartous/Arwad and Tyre.
A Tool Kit published in English, French and Arabic is available.
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